FDX5045 FedEx
Boeing 777 FS2 · N853FD · OAK → MEM
· 1:36Quality 82side-onturned left 29°
Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −68%). Download
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Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.
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Events
Tracking metrics
How well the camera kept the aircraft centred. Tap a metric for what it means and what good looks like.
- Lockshare of the pass
- 68%
- First lockfrom target selected
- 6.6 s
- Centring, medianaz / el while locked
- 0.34° / 0.50°
- Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
- 1.80° / 2.00°
- Tightest field of viewhorizontal
- 4.1°
- Time to 8°from first lock
- 20.9 s
- Time to tightestfrom first lock
- 81.6 s
- Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
- 9.0 s
- Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
- 0.11° / 0.25°
- Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
- 0.51° / 0.87°
- Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
- 1.1
- Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
- 0.68°
- Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
- 1.86°
- Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
- 1.02°
- Largest correctionvision vs prediction
- 3.03°
- Zoom steps
- 58
Aircraft & route
- Flight
- FDX5045
- Registration
- N853FD
- Type
- Boeing 777 FS2
- Airline
- FedEx
- From
- OAK · Oakland
- To
- MEM · Memphis
- Ground speed
- 315 kt
- Altitude at closest
- 10,650 ft
- Vertical rate
- +2,304 ft/min
- Category
- A5
- ICAO hex
- abb2fe
Pass geometry
- Max elevation
- 68.5°
- Elevation at start → end
- 18.2° → 21.6°
- Azimuth at start → end
- 14° NNE → 166° SSE
- Closest-approach azimuth
- 96° E
- Minimum slant range
- 3.5 km
- Heading at closest
- 185° S
- Aspect at closest
- side-on (88°)
- Turn
- turned left 29°
- Departure
- Yes — climbing out after take-off
- Zenith pass
- No
- Dead-zone wrap
- No
- Duration
- 1:36 (96.1 s)
- Lock
- 68%
Build & tuning
The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.
- Build
- 2026-10-13k — centred plane + noisy motion check no longer demotes the zoom
- Commit
- 181d1fa+wip
- Node
- v22.22.2
- Camera
- TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
- Clip
- 48.0 MB · 96.0 s · offset -0.8 s
- pursuit
- velocity
- maxLeadSec
- 3
- panLatencySec
- 0.6
- tiltLatencySec
- 0.4
- rippleDeg
- 0.5
- rippleTeleDeg
- 0.25
- rateFloorDegPerDps
- 2.5
- rateFloorMaxDeg
- 12
- lockedSigmaDeg
- 0.35
- correctionSlewDps
- 2.5
- kp
- 1
- ki
- 0.6
This clip and poster are © Skylight (Cameron Paczek): free for non-commercial use with credit to skylightceiling.com, not MIT. License